How did you get your information about puberty? If you were receiving those details sometime after September 1998, there’s a good chance it was from the cozy illustrations of American Girl’s The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls.
When Rita Ora and her myriad collaborators released “Girls” in May, there was pushback and much debate over whether the song was a queer power anthem or a piece of exploitative trash. The lyrics, largely written by men, were criticized for stereotyping lesbian romance as nothing more than casual, drunk fun among…
On Wednesday, Variety reported that 42 parking production assistants who worked on the HBO series Girls are suing the network, alleging they were not hired back to work on later seasons as an act of retaliation for demanding better pay and working conditions.
Men consume chips with a vigor reserved for those who have never feared for their safety on an open-air bridge; who have never thought their right to vote could be revoked as a clerical error because they got too shouty in the SoHo Apple store; who don’t know what it feels like to scream at their skin until it absorbs…
After watching the entirety of Girls (twice), and considering it these past few weeks in particular as I’ve kept apace with the final season, I find I have twenty minutes to write about it here and don’t quite have the words to express what it meant to me—the joy, the uncontrollable laughter, the recognition, and deep…
Claire was watching a little television show called Girls when she fell in love with the romantic but chic white lace frock worn by Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna. Who wouldn’t, really! It’s very Beyoncé. Claire writes:
If you’ve ever wondered at what point girls (wrongly) begin to think that boys are smarter than them, a new study from Science has pretty solid evidence of the answer: Six. Not five. Not seven. Six.
Since premiering in 2012, Lena Dunham’s Girls has elicited cringes, laughter, boredom, a sense of camaraderie among a certain subset of millennials, and almost every kind of praise and every kind of criticism a half-hour HBO show can possibly garner. On February 12, the series will enter its sixth and final season.
On a Saturday evening last January, Gynnya McMillen was staying at her mother’s apartment complex in Shelbyville, a city of 15,000 in northern Kentucky. Gynnya, 16, lived in foster care but was allowed weekend visits with her mother, Michelle McMillen, since their long-strained relationship had begun to improve. That…
If you’re that special type of stage parent who won’t rest until your child becomes a successful Ghostbuster known far and wide, I recommend heading over to Old Navy’s website and purchasing some branded merch. But wait! Before you go, let me to give you some special instructions: if you want to buy a shirt that…
If you are trying to win an Emmy, don’t think you can get away with anything, because apparently someone is always watching your ass for disqualifications.
At long last, Disney has created a Latina princess to join its pantheon of (predominately white) royalty: Elena of Avalor. She’ll make her debut not in a feature length film, but via a new television series on the Disney Channel.
A tenth-grade girl died Thursday, April 21, from injuries sustained during a fight in a bathroom of a Delaware high school. The 16-year-old girl, who attended Wilmington’s Howard High School of Technology, was involved in a “physical altercation” with a “few female students” on Thursday morning. After the fight, she…
Touted by producer Jenni Konner as an episode you must watch live, Sunday night’s Girls was an episode just about Marnie. Before it aired, Allison Williams said she was the “most proud of” it, suggesting that it would make Marnie-haters more sympathetic to her character’s plight.
The signifiers of upper middle class, white male midlife crisis have shifted across the past few generations with a lava-slow determination, time and culture churning on itself and ossifying into a whole new level of hell. Boomers who bought fast cars and unexpectedly took up squash or long-distance running evolved…
On Sunday, Caroline Paul wrote an op-ed for the New York Times, asking a question whose importance has been exponentially growing on me lately. “Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared?” she asks, opening the piece:
Tina Fey is working with Girls writer Sarah Heyward on the gambling comedy You Bet! which is based on, wait for it.........a Good Housekeeping article.
Those of us with the dexterity of an inebriated giraffe are prone to rejoice at innovations that make at-home manicures less of a catastrophe. The Nailbot, a new machine from San Francisco-based company Preemadonna, is one such invention — it enables you to apply nail art simply by using your smart phone. But CEO and…
According to a new study from the United Nations Development Programme (which we saw via Quartz), teen pregnancy rates in West Africa are surging. The increase in these rates, already some of the highest in the world, is in large part because of the 2014 Ebola crisis.
